Issue

Children

Children deserve products designed around their rights and developmental needs, not business models that treat age assurance and safe defaults as optional.

Documented records

ReportedMicrosoft

Austrian ruling reportedly finds unlawful tracking in Microsoft 365 Education

Reporting on a complaint involving a school account says the authority found that tracking cookies were placed without valid consent and that access rights were not handled correctly.

Authority: Austrian Data Protection Authority
Event date: 24 July 2025

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ConfirmedAmazon

Amazon ordered to pay $25 million over children’s Alexa recordings

The government alleged that Amazon retained children’s voice recordings indefinitely, disregarded deletion requests and used retained data to improve Alexa’s algorithms.

Authority: United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission
Decision date: 19 July 2023
Penalty: US$25,000,000

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ConfirmedMeta

Instagram fined €405 million over children’s data

The inquiry examined Instagram settings and the public disclosure of email addresses and phone numbers belonging to child users, including users of business accounts.

Authority: Irish Data Protection Commission and European Data Protection Board
Decision date: 2 September 2022
Penalty: €405,000,000

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